Re: Uninstalling Gnome
On 2016-11-28, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all Debian users.
>
> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as
> my Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox. To free space, now I
> want to remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more
> but am not sure what of them I may delete without perturbing the
> system. How can I know? More in general, is there a way to know what
> packages one is not using and so can be removed?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Rodolfo
>
>
See the deborphan package. It is useful for trimming unwanted (and
unneeded) packages from your system.
--
Liam
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